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ATLANTA (AP) - Yemaya Stallworth came to Clark Atlanta University to get an engineering degree at a school where her teachers and classmates looked like her: black. But that option may soon disappear — if not for her, then for the students who come after her.
The historically black university has decided to eliminate the engineering department in May 2008 as part of a cost-cutting move at financially troubled Clark Atlanta. The department is Georgia's only black engineering program.
"It's really our cultural responsibility to graduate from and be taught by our own people and to bring more children in and have them follow our path. That's going to be taken away from us," said Stallworth, a 20-year-old sophomore from New York City who hopes to earn her degree before the shutdown.
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